"Fresh and new, but rough, layered and head-nodding like classic UK street soul, this is the fifth and for us the best-yet installment in Londoner Eye's excellent, under-the-radar series. Slippery and hard-to-pin-down as usual, but rooted in funk and soul connoisseurship. Two-sided this time -- boozier, dizzier and more spaced-out on the flip, smudged with echo and effects, and scraps of horns and singing. Beautifully hand-decorated sleeves as per."

New age masterpiece from krautrock mystic Deuter, this album contains the music for the first two stages of an hour long kundalini meditation developed for westerners by Rajneesh (later known as Osho). The stages involve listening to the music and "Shaking" (stage one), "Dancing" (stage two), and "Witnessing" (stage three). These stages are not really meditations but a sort of preparation to facilitate meditation. Rajneesh had been trying to teach the practice of direct meditation for ten years before he realized his effort was futile: "I would say, 'Relax', to those I was teaching. They would appear to understand the meaning of the word, but they could not relax." He developed a technique that would activate the body with intense movement, creating tension in order to allow for the stillness of the meditation. Deuter and Rajneesh (along with a team of disciples that tested and consulted on these methods) collaborated to make music that would (in stage one and two) occupy the mind and compel the body. The music of stage three was designed to relax the body and compel the mind to awareness, acting as a transition to stage four, which is silent, with the person lying down, (actually) meditating. Speaking about music, Rajneesh wrote, "Between sounds of music there are gaps of silence. The authentic music consists not of sounds, but of the gaps. Music can make you aware of those gaps more beautifully than anything else." While living at the ashram as a disciple of Rajneesh, Deuter produced a series of compositions to be used in these "active" meditations. They were recorded using a multitrack tape machine and an assortment of acoustic and electronic instruments - guitar, tambura, bells, percussion, and synthesizers. The playing style is repetitious yet dynamic, incorporating loops, Indian classical motifs, musique concrète, and pastoral acoustic passages. Kundalini Meditation, never released on vinyl in the states, is presented here for the first time with the full length tracks. It was originally released in 1979.

2006 release. "Culled from various live recordings and radio sessions obtained on the blackmarket in Manhattan and Calcutta and then pressed into wax using a stolen key and a hostage Vinyl Plant employee. These artifacts weren't easy to obtain and some blood was shed, however I am sure that you will agree that it has been worth it. Jackie O is a revolving door and these sessions capture a very focused version of the band, almost rockist."

"Otto Muehl is an Austrian convicted child molester, who is best known as one of the co-founders as well as the most exciting participant of Viennese Actionism. He's the sort of guy who might fuck a swan, and then scream a little poem about it. In the sixties his aim was 'to overcome painting on canvas through staging the process of its destruction.' He made rhizomatic structures with scrap iron (Gerümpelplastiken), but soon proceeded to the 'Aktion' in the vein of the New York Happenings. Gradually, Muehl began to distance himself from 'Aktion.' He regarded the 'happening as a bourgeois artform, mere art.' This is an exact reproduction of his 1971 Psycho Motorik LP, which documents that very departure."

"Exact reproduction LP of a Swedish release from 1970. A bit of confusion surrounds this release: The album has been credited to Träd, Gräs och Stenar, but they aren't featured on it. Bo Anders Persson did, in fact, in collaboration with Solvieg Bark, compile, edit and release this album. Bo Anders Persson, was a member of the legendary Swedish bands Harvester, International Harvester, Pärson Sound, and Träd, Gräs Och Stenar. Solveig Bark was one of a few young composers that, through the UNM (Young Nordic Music Festivals), would become a contemporary of Erkki Kurenniemi, Folke Rabe, etc. Reportage: Spela Själv roughly translates to 'Play Yourself.' It contains field recordings of amateurs playing/making sounds. Raga Concrète, if you will. A fine, rare, and lovely piece to behold."

Grey-area exact LP repro edition, originally released on Fahey's Takoma label in 1967. Charlie Nothing was the fractured-psyche pseudonym of author, organic farmer, beekeeper and philosopher/clown Charles Martin Simon, inventor of the dingulator (guitar sculptures made out the metal from American cars). The Psychedelic Saxophone Of Charlie Nothing made a minor splash in the European free jazz melting pot upon its initial release, but the album's non-dingulating psych sax improvisation, accompanied by gong, conga drum and banjo (supposedly borrowed from Tiny Tim), is highly sought-after by the adventurous and heavily medicated. Limited to 500 copies.

One-sided release. "Indisputably dope ambient masterpiece from legendary British producer Pub, re-issued here on high-quality 180 gram vinyl. One of the seldom examples of the aggressive & uncompromising attack on the subgenre, 'Summer' realizes the lost promise of the Basic Channel lineage: a track that continues forward to its dynamic, unpredictable end without succumbing to the druggy distraction of repetitive trance. Muddy echoic percussion & warm, expansive musical depth anchors 'Summer''s careful progression, holding back in favor of the track's beautifully crafted expansion: patience over overstatement as it reorganizes & restructures through the solid focus of reiteration. Pub demonstrates his delicate touch coupled with the confident statement-making brilliance of a producer confident to allow his music to speak it's own steady & meticulous language without the rushed & over-compensatory obviousness of so many of his peers."

"An exceptional and excellent release -- this track is called 'In Church,' originally released by the French indie band M83 (Mute records). These are anonymous edits. The original 'In Church' also appears on Luciano's Fabric 41. Great end of nighter!"